Atelier sur la Rivière will be at Maison&Objet, this year under the COSMIC YEAR banner!
“TERRA COSMOS, spaces for the future
The prospect of walking in space now has only one obstacle – financial.
The fantasy is free, fertile and creative, and it takes very concrete forms in the world of the home.
With the theme Terra Cosmos, the Peclers Paris agency has identified new frontiers that Maison&Objet will be exploring at the show in September.
You don’t need a spacesuit for that.
While these unprecedented formal and creative perspectives may put our heads in the stars, the proposals are down-to-earth and the materials often eminently telluric.
For François Delclaux, Terra Cosmos evokes “raw minerality, first and foremost, referring to lunar or Martian deserts”.
The recurring curator of the What’s New in Retail space has already spotted the beginnings of this in the publishers’ proposals.
“At Pulpo, the often massive, ‘primitive’ material, as if fallen from a meteorite, imposes the very shape of the object,” he continues.
Materials are a powerful thread running through Terra Cosmos.
Brutalist or sophisticated, iridescent or transparent, they evoke the mineral surface of stars as much as celestial and stellar expanses.
“The treatment of light is sometimes reminiscent of the magic circles used by Le Deun Luminaires.
Fuoriluogo Design’s creations evoke myriads of stars,” continues François Delclaux.
The Italian company Imperfetto Lab claims nature as a source of inspiration in its entirety, and its products often evoke this cosmic universe. “Our furniture seems to come from a distant archaeology, as if shaped by water, polished by wind or forged by fire,” says the brand, which relies on experimental know-how. “In reality, these creations come to life thanks to the work of skilled hands who, after many years of experimentation, have mastered resin in all its possible metamorphoses,” explains the transalpine publisher.
